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Profile: India’s billion people have a booming economy, enormous needs_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
As many as 30 million pilgrims flooded the Hindu holy city of Ujjain to seek spiritual cleansing in the sacred Shipra River. India alone is home to 14 "super-mega" people groups with more than 10 million members each who are currently "unengaged" by a church-planting movement strategy. (Matt Jones Photo) 'As India goes, so goes the Great Commission'
By Erich Bridges
International Mission Board
MUMBAI, India (BP)–What country is home to thousands of millionaires and nine of the world's richest billionaires, makes more movies than Hollywood, boasts the world's largest democracy and is home to 24 million Christians, including 19 million evangelicals?
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Pastor Corey Webb looks on as Everyday Christian Fellowship in Schertz prepares to break ground on a 17,0000-square-foot multipurpose facility. At the end of the ceremony, bags were passed out so that everyone could scoop up a bit of the dirt to take home as a prayer reminder. Since the church's start in 2001, more than 400 people have prayed to receive Christ through its ministry, and 120 have been baptized. The day of the groundbreaking, the church baptized 10 people, including a family of three. Around the State
Ronnie Kidd has been re-elected president of the the Hardin-Simmons University Alumni Association. Linda Perkins will serve as president-elect. Other leaders include Andrea Howey, Larry Moss, Karen Johnson, Erin Maddox, Karen Gurganus, Debbie Young, Deborah Ashmore, Ann Scargall, Pat Kelley, Billy Bob Neff, Janis Altom, Vance Cooksey, Dean Taggart, Donald Tittle, Dorothy Kiser, Debbie Harruff, Bea Shakleford and Fred Ewing. Twelve East Texas Baptist University students participated in a model United Nations conference in Chicago. Representing the Marshall school were Amanda Bishop, Ben Bryan, Clarissa Knabenshue, Ginna Hobbs, Hollie Klumpp, Jay Carriker, Jon Roach, Keith Guthrie, Mark Jackson, Paul Potter, Ryan Abt and Ryan Fason. South Texas Children's Home and the Baptist General Convention of Texas hosted a day of inspiration and dove shoot for South Texas pastors and staff at the STCH Boothe Campus north of Beeville. More than 50 guests participated in a Bible study and fellowship led by Ed Rogers of Georgetown and Homer Hanna of Beeville followed by a dove hunt and barbeque meal. Enjoying a laugh about the doves that got away are (back row, left to right) Greg Taylor, pastor of First Church in Beeville; David Nabors, CFO and treasurer of the BGCT; Bill Fowler, pastor of First Church in Pleasanton; Mike Flanagan, pastor of First Church in Pharr; Jim Furgerson, BGCT South Texas regional office associate; Michael Murphy, pastor of First Church in Smithville; and Jad Hubbard, deacon at First Church in Smithville. Front row from left, Ross Chandler, pastor of First Church in Hondo; Jerry Haag, president and CEO of STCH; Charles Wade, executive director of the BGCT; Lee Bevly, pastor of First Church in Skidmore; and Ruben Perez, deacon at First Church in Pharr. Eleven University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students were accepted into the 25th annual Central Texas Art Competition. Top awards were earned by senior art majors Katherine Salter, Paula Smith and Brian McClure. Other UMHB students accepted into the competition were Tabitha Lovelace, Dean Youngblood, Nancy Holder, Katy Seals, Lea Wulbrecht, Hope Greeley, Melinda Hawkins and Karen Burgess. One hundred sixty artworks were chosen from 400 entries. 12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Church guides visitors through interactive journey to Bethlehem_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Jim Vickroy, a member of Western Oaks Baptist Church of Springfield, Ill., portrays Zechariah in the church's interactive Christmas drama. Church guides visitors through
interactive journey to BethlehemBy Michael Leathers
Associated Baptist Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (ABP)–With just a portable heater as defense against the cool night, Kendra Jackson waits for the next group of Christmas celebrants to arrive. The 30-something mother of two daughters is portraying Anna in the interactive Christmas drama produced by Western Oaks Baptist Church.
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Baptist Briefs
Mercer president announces retirement plans. Kirby Godsey, Mercer University's longest-serving president, announced he will retire in 18 months, and trustees expect to start the search for his successor as early as spring. At a recent trustee meeting, Godsey, 68, revealed his plans to step down June 30, 2006. Mercer trustee and Augusta attorney David Hudson will head the search committee, which will begin work in the spring. Godsey went to work for the historically Baptist university in 1977 as executive vice president and dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Previously he was vice president and dean of the college at Averett College in Danville, Va. When Godsey became president in 1979, Mercer had an enrollment of 3,800 students, an endowment of $16.5 million and a budget of $21.3 million. It grew under his leadership to become Georgia's second-largest private university, with an enrollment of 7,300 students, an endowment of more than $176 million, a budget of $173.8 million and 665 faculty members.
BGCT president to address CBF assembly. Baptist General Convention of Texas President Albert Reyes has been added to the list of keynote speakers at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly, June 29-July 2 at Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine. Reyes, who also is president of Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio, will speak during the Thursday evening session. Online registration and hotel reservations for the general assembly can be made at the Fellowship's website, www.thefellowship.info.
Baptist chaplain honored. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains recently presented its Legion of Honor award to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-endorsed chaplain Keith Ethridge. Ethridge is acting deputy director for the National Chaplains Center for the Department of Veterans Affairs. A former U.S. Navy chaplain, Ethridge has been a clinical pastoral education supervisor 17 years. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, a national nonprofit organization established to encourage cooperation and promote unity without uniformity, annually recognizes individuals from all walks of life who render selfless service. Dedicated by President Truman in 1951, the chapel was inspired by the courageous acts of four U.S. Army chaplains serving aboard the U.S. troop carrier Dorchester, which was sunk by a torpedo off the coast of Greenland in 1943. The chaplains–Catholic, Dutch Reformed, Jewish and Methodist–went down with the ship after surrendering their own lifejackets to servicemen aboard.
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
Ronnie Kidd has been re-elected president of the the Hardin-Simmons University Alumni Association. Linda Perkins will serve as president-elect. Other leaders include Andrea Howey, Larry Moss, Karen Johnson, Erin Maddox, Karen Gurganus, Debbie Young, Deborah Ashmore, Ann Scargall, Pat Kelley, Billy Bob Neff, Janis Altom, Vance Cooksey, Dean Taggart, Donald Tittle, Dorothy Kiser, Debbie Harruff, Bea Shakleford and Fred Ewing. 
Twelve East Texas Baptist University students participated in a model United Nations conference in Chicago. Representing the Marshall school were Amanda Bishop, Ben Bryan, Clarissa Knabenshue, Ginna Hobbs, Hollie Klumpp, Jay Carriker, Jon Roach, Keith Guthrie, Mark Jackson, Paul Potter, Ryan Abt and Ryan Fason. 
